"The hospital's board is very interested in the LGBT community. The Board of Directors has worked with the Faculty and we will arrange a separate and friendly clinic for the LGBT community.Practice carefully to ensure the needs of medical care of all of you.Specialist II Nguyen Thi Thanh Tho, Deputy Head of Clinical Department of 3 Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital "promised" in the first sharing session on communication for medical staff with the LGBT community, held in the afternoon of 19/6 at the hospital.
Doctors and dermatological hospital staff and LGBT community faces in the afternoon sharing session 19/6.
More than 100 dermatologists are nurses, administrative staff, doctors, security ... listened and with the face of the LGBT community representative discuss on topics related to perception and needs.Respect for the LGBT community when coming to health facilities.
Mr. Nguyen Anh Phong (the southern representative of the network of people living with HIV/AIDS VNP+, consultant at his clinic- Ho Chi Minh City, dubbed the "eldest brother" of the person living with HIV/AIDS), Ms. Huynh Nguyen To An (often called Jessica Ca, a famous face in the transgender community, Ho Chi Minh City) and friend Nguyen Manh Phuc (the group of activities for the rights of transgender people FTM, the nameOften called DG Creo, Ho Chi Minh City) shared about the experience of life in general and medical care experience at the public hospital of transgender and LGBT community, as well as the desires for employees.Health and public medical examination and treatment facilities.
"I have lived over 19 years of frustration, stigma, boycotted by all my friends and family, when I went out, my father pulled out his waist.Perhaps I was very wrong, so sinful so my parents were sad because of that.
Fortunately, the doctors saved life so that now I can stand here to share with everyone.Then I thought differently.I am very working and creating my own job, helping other transgender friends who used to be like me before.
Up to now, when signing a contract or paying tax of the company (Ca has a company operating in the field of performance and supply of costumes - NV), I still face many difficulties because of the name and image in the proof.My people are too much different from the real person.But now I'm not afraid of anything anymore, I am not afraid of discrimination.A lot of transgender people died when they struggled to live with themselves, so today she is very proud to stand here to say: "I am a transgender person",To An said.
In response to To An's words were tears and applause.
Phuc - DG Creo said that Vietnam's law has not yet recognized the right to transform sex, many of the transgender friends have been taken advantage of by some health facilities.
Phuc (middle).
Women's breasts are physiological characteristics that many transgender men do not want to survive on their bodies.Some medical facilities promise to remove breasts for you, but in a "multi-level" way: promising free surgery on the condition that the person must invite another 5-10 people to work (with 10 people.then have charge).However, you do not have surgery to thoroughly remove the mammary gland but cost a few tens of millions, the breasts are still almost the same.Or create a keloid scar and is very long across the chest, or the worst is both.
Recently a transgender friend of FTM had to go back to the second time because of this case.
With diseases that the male group has sex with men or infected like syphilis, genital warts, because they are afraid of discrimination at the public hospital, you mainly go to private health facilities.
"Taking advantage of this point, the cost of healing of those places blows many times higher than the cost at the public hospital.Some of you lose 7 million for a genital warts, some of you lose a total of VND 100 million for syphilis treatment ",Mr. Phong said.
"I believe that if the doctor, nurse, the staff recalls certain medical records ... Understand there are sayings or attitudes may be due to accidental or curiosity but causing damage to the extent thatWith the LGBT community, they won't do it.
Hope you guys understand, a person who is discriminated for many years because of what they have no errors at all, are carrying sickness, tired and worried, but when the hospital is examined, they will have a sentence "-The disease is sick? "Is it crazy? ", Phong said.
"We went to the doctor to pay for everyone. I just hope the hospital will treat us like the patients. Don't ask us about our personal habits or how to have sexThat has nothing to do with healing ", DG Creo added.
"We don't need pity. We just need to be treated fairly, whenever the disease goes to the doctor and is treated like everyone else", "To An affirmed.
Short but Phong, To An and Creo spoke for the hearts and desires of more than 300,000 transgender people in Vietnam (according to the 2017 survey of ISEE-Social, Economic and Environmental Research).The total LGBT community is 2.6 million people (according to the study based on the average, "safe" rate that scientists admit to 3% of the population).
An An in a discussion with Dr. Pham Dang Trong Tuong.
Specialist II Pham Dang Trong Tuong, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital, said that sharing to understand and sympathize with the LGBT community is not only a civilized behavior of man, but first it is it.The responsibility of health workers is the same hospital as a dermatology hospital.He also affirmed that the hospital's Board of Directors considered participating in training training as this content for all employees.
Doctor Pham Dang Trong Tuong, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital
Starting from 1pm on weekends, hours and rainy weather lasted very long, but finally the sharing session lasted longer than expected for nearly an hour, but the attendees still lingered and asked more.It is not enough.
In the near future, Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital will continue to organize similar shares.
From the following month, still in the program accompanying Afamily.vn and community groups operating for LGBT rights, the hospital will have free disease consulting sessions for the LGBT community.This is a good news, very suitable for announcing in June proud of the LGBT community.